Are the French a bunch of "Misérables"?

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Tuesday, 4th January 2011: We look at German tourists trapped amid crocodiles in Australia's floods; the French people and their pessimism; a Ugandan court which has blocked a newspaper from revealing the identity of the country's "top homosexuals" and finally, Carla Bruni's supposed desires for a baby.

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